Maslenitsa is a traditional Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday, celebrated during the last week before Great Lent, preceding Orthodox Easter. Some traditional Maslenitsa activities involve eating pancakes, fist fighting, snowball fighting, sleigh rides and burning a scarecrow of "Lady Maslenitsa" that represents winter.
© Sputnik / Evgeniy Odinokov / Go to the mediabankParticipants of the Moscow Maslenitsa Week festival.
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Participants of the Moscow Maslenitsa Week festival.
© Sputnik / Evgeniy Odinokov / Go to the mediabankBaking pancakes at the Moscow Maslenitsa festival.
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Baking pancakes at the Moscow Maslenitsa festival.
© Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev / Go to the mediabankMaslenitsa celebration decorations by the monument in the center of Moscow.
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Maslenitsa celebration decorations by the monument in the center of Moscow.
© Sputnik / Evgeniy Odinokov / Go to the mediabankParticipants of the Moscow Maslenitsa Week festival.
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Participants of the Moscow Maslenitsa Week festival.
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Eating Maslenitsa pancakes on Red Square in Moscow.
© Sputnik / Evgeniy Odinokov / Go to the mediabankA participant of the Moscow Maslenitsa Week festival.
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A participant of the Moscow Maslenitsa Week festival.
© Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev / Go to the mediabankTourists at a pancake serving station on the Red Square in Moscow.
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Tourists at a pancake serving station on the Red Square in Moscow.
© Sputnik / Evgeniy Odinokov / Go to the mediabankParticipants of the Moscow Maslenitsa Week festival.
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Participants of the Moscow Maslenitsa Week festival.